Search Results for: Heal Farm Bill

HEAL Food Alliance Shows Up Big in DC for a Transformative Farm Bill

By Eloni Porcher, Communications Manager at HEAL Food Alliance Food is our most intimate and powerful connection to each other, our cultures, and the earth. How we produce, process, and consume food has a larger impact on our wellbeing than any other human activity.  That’s why, earlier this month, HEAL members joined over 500 farmers […]
2 years ago

Senate Passes Trump’s Budget – A Massive Giveaway to Billionaires

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 1, 2025 Senate Passes Trump’s Budget – A Massive Giveaway to Billionaires that Cuts SNAP, Fuels Deportations, and Guts Climate Protections Today, the Senate passed Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful” budget – a massive giveaway to billionaires and corporate polluters at the expense of everyday people. Similar to the House version, the […]
2 weeks ago

Statement: House Budget Slashes Food Aid, Boosts Billionaires

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 23, 2025 House Budget Slashes Food Aid, Boosts Billionaires HEAL Food Alliance Urges Senate to Reject Reconciliation Bill That Cuts SNAP, Escalates Deportations, and Guts Climate Funding Yesterday, House Republicans passed a budget reconciliation bill that guts critical support systems for working families while giving more handouts to billionaires and corporate […]
2 months ago

HEAL Food Alliance Urges Congress to Protect Transparency in Lending for Small Farmers and Ranchers

HEAL Food Alliance Urges Congress to Protect Transparency in Lending for Small Farmers and Ranchers WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 5, 2024) – Today, the House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing for multiple bills that threaten key protections for small farmers, ranchers, and everyday borrowers. Lawmakers discussed rolling back critical regulations designed to provide transparency […]
5 months ago

Seeding Revolution! HEAL’s 2024 Year in Review

  Download HEAL’s 2024 Year in Review   Our vision is clear. In the future we dream of, all of us have the opportunity for meaningful, dignified work, and deep, lasting connections to the land. In our vision, vacant lots become vibrant gardens where pollinators thrive, rural communities breathe freely, and riparian restoration heralds the […]
7 months ago

In Defense of Our Food System, Workers, and Environment: HEAL Transition Memo

TO: Members of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate FROM: HEAL Food Alliance DATE: December 9, 2024 SUBJECT: In Defense of Our Food System, Workers, and Environment Over the last four years, you have helped us push the Biden-Harris Administration to advance food and farm systems that are good for […]
7 months ago

Ten Bills to Create Dignity and Safe Working Conditions for Food and Farm Workers

By Nichelle Harriott, Policy Director, HEAL Food Alliance This piece serves as the second blog of the series “Agricultural Workers, Essential but Excluded,” in partnership with Union of Concerned Scientists  Food and farm workers touch every part of our food system: they plant and harvest crops, process meat and poultry, conduct food safety inspections, stock […]
8 months ago